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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Tudor-Stuart drama.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of lyric poetry from the late 16th century up through the mid-19th century.
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3.00 Credits
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in a time of great social, political, and religious upheaval, a time in which the stakes of English writing were uncertain. This course examines Chaucer's efforts during that period to create sustained fiction in English through his most ambitious and experimental work, The Canterbury Tales. We will learn about earlier forms of English, its sounds, and its poetry while reading stories ranging from the lascivious to the sacred. Regular quizzes will help strengthen your language and translation skills while short papers and midterm and final exams will allow you to explore and synthesize larger ideas about Chaucer, his times, and his work. Ultimately, we will find out what earned Chaucer the title "Father of English poetry."
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3.00 Credits
Examining works by Sydney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell, Donne, and others, this course discusses how cultural understandings of gender influence the depiction of love.
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3.00 Credits
Using a glossed text of Beowulf in Old English, an examination of a wide range of critical and cultural issues: What relationship do we expect between "heroic" texts and the society that produced and enjoyed them? What cultural investments of our own lead us to read certain Old English texts and not others? How did Beowulf receive canonical status? What is a translation? And what strategies of reading can we bring to a thousand-year old poem?
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literary, theatrical, and religious imaginations of medieval dramatic texts through readings, critical writing, discussion, and enactments of these texts.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari Eloquentia). Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation.
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3.00 Credits
A study of The Divine Comedy, in translation with facing Italian text, with special attention to the history of ideas, the nature of mimesis and allegory, and Dante's sacramental vision of life. We will also consider the influence of Augustine's Confessions on Dante's imagination and experience and read selections from the Fioretti, or Little Flowers of St. Francis, and from such later figures as Teresa of Avila as well as modern writers-- including T. S. Eliot--for whom Dante constitutes a powerful presence. Readings: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, trans. John D. Sinclair (Oxford); St. Augustine, Confessions.
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3.00 Credits
A performance-oriented Shakespeare course based on the theatrical and literary disciplines, techniques, and interpretations.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine representative examples of comedy, history, tragedy, and romance in order to provide students with a broad overview of Shakespeare's work. Assignments will include a word history, a word cloud, a passage analysis, an essay (6-8 pp.), a midterm, and a final.
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